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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 249

The Literarily Interesting Voluntary Medical Service Medal to Miss Carola Oman, Lady Lenanton [C.B.E.], Historical Novelist and Biographer, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and President of the Hertfordshire Branch, British Red Cross Society Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Lady (Carola Mary Anima) Lenanton), extremely fine Estimate £ 25-35 C.B.E. London Gazette 13.6.1957 Miss Carola Oman (Carola Mary Anima, Lady Lenanton), Writer. Miss Carola Mary Anima Oman, Lady Lenanton, C.B.E., F.S.A., was born in May 1897, the daughter of Sir Charles Oman, K.B.E., Chichele Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford; and was educated at Wychwood School, Oxford. Whilst still in her teens she served with the British Red Cross Society on the Western Front 1916-18, work which inspired her first work The Menin Road and other Poems (1919). In 1922 she married Mr. (later Sir) Gerald Lenanton, and moved to Hertfordshire, living a stone´s throw from Royston. Between 1924 and 1935 she published some 16 novels, before resuming her Red Cross activities in 1938, serving as county President of the Hertfordshire Branch from 1947 to 1958. Appointed a trustee of the National Maritime Museum, 1955; and the National Portrait Gallery, 1956, she was created C.B.E. in 1957. She died 11.6.1978.

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